Reception
| Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 20.22%. |
| Metacritic | 20 of 100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| GameSpot | 2.5/10 |
| IGN | 2/10 |
Following its release on March 27, 2009, Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust was met with overwhelming negative reviews. Chris Watters of GameSpot described the game as "Mindless, repetitive gameplay and a truly atrocious sense of humor help Leisure Suit Larry live up to its name—it's a total bust" while Charles Onyett expressed his opinion on his review of the game on IGN as "The lowest rating numbers here at IGN are reserved for games with nearly no redeeming qualities or interesting ideas, with next to nothing enjoyable to offer players, and which under no circumstances should be purchased by anyone. Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust is, without a doubt, one of those games". Gametrailers.com gave the game a 2.3 out of 10, making it the lowest rated game on the website. Official Xbox Magazine gave it a 1.0, calling it an "astroturd" of a game. OXM also stated it was their worst rated game of the year so far, as well as going as far to say that it was the worst game on the Xbox 360 console thus far. Al Lowe thanked Vivendi Games on his website for keeping him away from what he called "the latest disaster". In PlayStation: The Official Magazine's September 2009 issue, PTOM joked about punishing a PS3 owner's dog by making it play the Leisure Suit Larry game. The dog had urinated on his owner's PS3, which surprisingly still works. Gamespot nominated the game for "Flat Out Worst Game of the Year" in 2009. It "lost" to Stalin vs. Martians. Giant Bomb gave the game the Worst Game of the Year Award in 2009. Australian television show Good Game awarded it to be the Worst Game of 2009. Screwattack.com gave the game a SAGY award for the Worst Multiconsole game of 2009. Similarly, GamesRadar gave Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust the title of the 23rd worst game of all time.
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